Word: elgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain's Christmas waits (streetwalking carol-singers) last week had a new carol to add to their repertoire of Wenceslas, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, and 'Ark The 'Erald Haingels Sing. Sir Edward Elgar, potent and pontifical British composer and conductor, master of the King's music, had composed one especially to celebrate the recovery of his Majesty George...
This he set to music and retitled "Good Morrow! A simple carol for His Majesty's happy recovery." It was far from simple. Sir Edward Elgar's best known composition is "Pomp and Circumstance." It is a favorite cinema overture, its ponderous measures boom weekly from radio loud speakers...
...roof that has often reverberated with mass advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus by all the 4,000 and most of the audience...
...Edward Elgar, Master of the King's Musick, said at a public luncheon last week: "We have the satisfaction of knowing that the King is slowly recovering, and in a few months, unless there is an accident, we shall have him among us again...
...Fiesta in Santa Barbara (1927) Converse Victory Dance of the first Inhabitants--Spanish Padres and Explorers--The March of Civilization--Land of Poco Timepo--Invasion of the Gringos--Midnight at "ElPaseo" 1927 "Espana" Chubrier Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni "Molly on the Shore" Grainger "Pomp and Circumatance" Elgar...